27 July 2022 at 04:43 The Lufthansa strike begins – at least 134,000 passengers are affected 20,000 Lufthansa employees started a strike on Wednesday that will last for just over a day. 134,000 passengers will be affected. Over 1,000 departures have been canceled as a result of the strike, reports the AFP news agency. Almost all of the company’s departures have been canceled on Wednesday. – All our flights to our hubs in Frankfurt and Munich are affected, writes press manager at Lufthansa, Boris Ogursky in an e-mail to NTB. For Frankfurt’s part, there are 578 canceled flights, while 345 flights to and from Munich have been cancelled. Travelers to and from Norway are also affected, with 13 canceled flights. The employees are demanding a wage increase of 9.5 percent to compensate for increased workload, high inflation and a general decrease in wages during the pandemic, says Verdi’s negotiation leader Christine Behle to the German news agency DPA. (NTB)
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